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Where’s The Truth?

In “The Best War Ever,” Chapter 4 discusses the fictitious information Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress (INC) shared with the United States government, which led us to invade Iraq because we thought Saddam Hussein developed a nuclear weapons program, which also led to a connection with Saddam Hussein and Al-Queda after the attacks on September 11, 2001. “In fact, the INC’s most significant accomplishment was its success at influencing U.S. policies and propagandizing the American public,” (101). The rest of the chapter explains how the INC did a phenomenal job in fooling the United States government and the country as a whole – such as making the claim that the Iraq’s had developed “mobile production facilities” to make biological weapons.

Chapter 5 discusses the arguments of why we even went to war and how it’s harder to get out of war than it was to get in. His false accusations of Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction led our country into a war that should have never occurred in the first place. There were also false accusations of Saddam Hussein having connections with Al-Queda, which was also false information. The Bush administration tried to avoid the blame by stating, “everybody else was wrong too.”

Reading more and more in this book, gives me a better understanding of how Bush relied on such false claims to lead us into a war that shouldn’t have been started. It seems as though our country wants to win the war for false reasons, than “lose” the war with the truth – knowing that we went into this war by word of mouth, rather than actual proof and evidence.